Renewing Fort Collins Together: A Team Approach

1. Renewing Fort Collins Together: A Team Approach April 14, 2011

2. Agenda Topics • North College Urban Renewal Plan Area • Mason Corridor • Midtown Existing Conditions Survey • Prospect South • Foothills Mall • Sustainable, Flexible, Predictable Planning Tool

3. North College Urban Renewal Plan Area

4. URA Commitments • Landscaping/trees/wetlands enhancements • Stormwater improvements • Sewer expansion/infrastructure • Streetscapes • Sidewalks • Utilities • Green building features • Demolition/site prep • Façade enhancements TIF Quick Facts • $80 M invested • $14 M in TIF grants • $26 M in TIF generation

5. North College Marketplace Union Place Kaufman and Robinson Valley Steel JAX Rocky Mountain Innosphere

6. www.renewfortcollins.com

7. Mason Corridor

8. Mason Corridor • Linking community, lifestyle, and business • Enhancing environmental quality • Providing economic development opportunity • Offering convenience and choice

9. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) • “Rubber tired light rail” • Flexibility & convenience • Speed & comfort • High frequency service • Compressed natural gas • Purchasing six North American Bus Industries (NABI) BRT Vehicles

10. Mason Express BRT Corridor

11. Downtown CSU: Old Main to Laurel Prospect to Drake and Horsetooth to Harmony

12. South Transit Center

13. Project Status • 90% final BRT design completion • Construction late 2011 • Operational late 2013 • Howes two-way conversion complete • Mason two-way conversion begins 2011

14. Next Steps 2011 Complete BRT final design, obtain FTA Grant Agreement 2011-13 Mason Street conversion, STC construction, and BRT construction (includes Troutman and NRRC) 2013 Begin MAX service

15. Midtown Existing Conditions Survey

16. Existing Conditions Survey – Finding of “blight” Creation of Urban Renewal Plan area Enable TIF as funding tool Revitalization & Improvements Step 1 Step 2 PROCESS Step 3 Step 4

17. What is a Blight Study? • Inventory existing conditions • Visual and non-visual observations • Assess which observations qualify as factors of blight according to Urban Renewal Law in C.R.S. • Four of the eleven factors must be present • Document evidence to support a “finding of blight” by City Council

19. Section 1 Section 2 Section 3

20. Blight Factors Identified • Slum, deteriorated or deteriorating structures • Defective or inadequate street layout • Faulty lot layout • Unsanitary or unsafe conditions • Deterioration of site or other improvements • Unusual topography or inadequate public improvements • Health, safety, or welfare factors requiring high levels of services or underutilized buildings/sites

24. Non-Visual Observations • 535 nuisance code violations from 1999-2010 • Level of Service at major intersections at C/D • 33 average annual traffic accidents at major intersections • Spring Creek floodway/floodplain • Surface drainage and flooding • Multiple ditch crossings

25. Next Steps • April 20 – Open House • April 26 – Council work session to review Study • May 17 – Council hearing to declare blight and submit Urban Renewal Plan (URP) to P&Z, PSD, and County • June 16 – P&Z hearing to determine if URP is aligned with City Plan policies • July 19 – Council hearing to approve URP

26. Prospect South

28. Prospect South • Existing Conditions Survey updated • Capstone – Choice Center student housing project • 220 units • Break ground in July, open Fall 2013 • July 19 – plan area adoption • Property owner “Charette” – corner of Prospect and College

29. Foothills Mall

30. Foothills Mall Redevelopment • Existing Conditions Survey updated • Continued dialogue with General Growth Properties • Working towards a redevelopment agreement • Likely a phased program over several years • More to come over the next six months

31. Sustainable Sustainable, Flexible, Predictable Planning Tool (SFP) SFP Predictable Flexible

32. Why do we need the SFP? • Modifications to the Code are becoming the norm, not the exception • Projects just meeting the code minimum, not above and beyond • Infill/redevelopment sites are heavily constrained • Interim uses are challenging under the Code

33. The SFP is… What is the SFP? PREDICTABILITY Flexible zoning LEAST Prescriptive zoning MOST dynamic • Voluntary L.D.G.S. SFP! • Planned Development Approach • Performance-Based REVIEW PROCESS LAND USE CODE Discretion/Neighbor Input LEAST MOST • Defined Location • Incentivized static

34. Defined Location • Targeted Activity Centers • Targeted Redevelopment Areas • Transit Oriented Development (TOD) OverlayZone

35. Incentivized • Use flexibility (addition of a permitted use) • Extended plan approval timeframe • Funding • Fee delay • Density bonus

36. Next Steps • Research (Feb - Apr) • Develop (Apr - May) • Test & Refine (May - Jun) • Adopt (Jul - Aug) • Monthly Planning & Zoning Board (P&Z) work sessions • July 21 – P&Z recommendation • Aug 16 – City Council action

37. Issues and Opportunities Survey

38. Thank you for coming today!Questions? www.renewfortcollins.com